Apex domains cannot have CNAME records.
Question and response
Question
dig my.com. NS
Answer
my.com. 5 NS ns1.my.com.
my.com. 5 NS ns2.my.com.
Authority
The response has no authority records.
Additional
ns1.my.com. 5 A 217.69.139.112
ns2.my.com. 5 A 94.100.180.138
. 0 OPT ; payload 1232, xrcode 0, version 0, flags 0